Designing Mechanical Systems for Harsh Environments

Designing Mechanical Systems for Harsh Environments

Ensure the reliability and remote maintainance of your equipment in hostile nuclear environments.

    • Design equipment suitable for operation in environments inaccessible to humans (robotic arms, manipulators, robots)
    • Integrate robust devices from the design stage onwards, limiting failures and maintenance interventions.
    • Facilitate remote disassembly and reassembly
    • Reduce intervention durations to preserve production capacity and minimize operator exposure
    • Ensuring safety and security requirements throughout the entire life cycle, even during operations in confined or irradiated environments
    • Benefit from a comprehensive solution from design to industrial commissioning, ensuring the long-term performance of your equipment in environments inaccessible to humans
    • Rely on standards proven by 50 years of experience (robust, modular designs that are easy to maintain remotely, thereby limiting operational interruptions and operator exposure).
    • Integrate suitable materials (resistant to irradiation, abrasion, corrosion) and proven components from the design phase onwards to ensure high reliability.
    • Accelerate the qualification of your industrial systems with virtual reality and inactive laboratory testing, used to simulate operations.
    • Reduce operating costs with a modular design enabling quick and safe replacement of wear parts
    • Receive support from design to commissioning, with on-site assistance provided by teams with dual engineering/operational expertise.

     

    • Modular design with sub-assemblies accessible via remote operation
    • Use of standardized components: master-slave manipulators, shielded windows, nuclear-rated cranes, robots, and teleoperated machines
    • Comprehensive degraded-mode analysis and definition of preventive measures
    • Virtual reality simulation of operations and maintenance activities
    • 50 years of experience in the design, operation, and decommissioning of complex nuclear facilities in France and internationally (La Hague, MELOX, CEA, Rokkasho in Japan)
    • Expertise in hostile environments: irradiation, confinement, corrosion, and abrasive powders
    • Development and implementation of inspection and repair equipment for confined spaces
    • Capitalisation of technology and methods through a set of standards